Connor v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 12 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Buckley v. Valeo (1976), East Carroll Parish School Board v. Marshall (1976)
16 federal appellate · 12 district · 25 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · Burns v. Richardson · Kirkpatrick v. Preisler · Connor v. Johnson · Kirkpatrick v. W Preisler F V Heinkel
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(s)uch proceedings should go forward and be promptly concluded,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Connor v. Coleman · Connor v. Finch“[Legislative reapportionment is primarily a matter for legislative consideration and determination, and judicial relief becomes appropriate only when a legislature fails to reapportion according to federal constitutional requisites in a timely fashion after having had an adequate opportunity to do so. Reynolds v. Sims, supra at 586, 84 S.Ct. at 1394.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“raise[d] substantial questions concerning the constitutionality of the District Court's plan as a design for permanent apportionment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Connor v. Coleman
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.